Why does Daniel Cox say young men and women are splitting apart politically?

Daniel Cox says that when he looked at Gallup data in 2022, young men and women began diverging sharply on ideology around 2016. His reading is that young women became far more liberal while young men stayed fairly flat. Feminist identity shows the same pattern: older generations are within about five points by sex, while in Generation Z a majority of women call themselves feminists against about 40% of men.

• Cox says young women's views on abortion shifted strongly after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
• Cox believes political leaders make the gender divide worse by framing issues as win-lose for one sex.

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“It's not that we're seeing young men moving far, far to the right, but that women are becoming far more liberal.” Daniel Cox · at 1:34:31 — open in the transcript →

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